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From World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations, 1
November 1995. In parts of Asia today, HIV is spreading as
fast as it did in Africa a decade ago. If effective HIV
prevention programs are not put in place, Asia will overtake
Africa by the mid to late 1990s in terms of the number of
newly infected people per year.

By Jacky Delorme, ICFTU Online..., 1 December
1998. While hundreds of thousands of patients are now
getting better, 95% of infected people will die in a
relatively short space of time because they have not
received even the most fundamental treatment. Their
problem: being poor, in a poor country.

ICFTU Online. . ., 1 April 2000. AIDS is the invisible
killer which feeds on poverty, war, and societies in
economic crisis. One of the best forms of controlling it
is being blocked by the greed of the multinational
pharmaceutical companies. Poverty engenders AIDS which
engenders further poverty.

By Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS, 19 March 2000. Women
health activists in India have criticised the theme for
this year’s U.N. global campaign to combat AIDS,
charging that it is gender biased. By highlighting the
role of men and their issues, it may result in women
getting further marginalised.

At the United Nations International Meeging on AIDS, 28
June 2001. Donations and goodwill to help calm the pain
and suffering are welcome and gratefully received but they
are not the solutions to humanity’s problems; what
we need is justice and solidarity. Cuba—s
successes.

ICFTU Online..., 29 June 2001. Landmark U.N. document
views HIV/AIDS not only as a medical issue, but as a
threat to political stability, economic growth and human
rights. The ICFTU and ACL-CIO contribution to the
Declaration. The workplace as a focus of action.